Quarks Bound by Chiral Fields

Quarks Bound by Chiral Fields
Author: Georges Ripka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1997
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780198517849

The structure of light hadrons is dominated by the spontaneously broken chiral symmetry of the strongly interacting (QCD) vacuum. Low energy properties of light hadrons can be described in terms of quarks interacting with chiral fields. This book gives a comprehensive account of a large class of models which describe the restoration of chiral symmetry at high temperature and density, the effective interactions between quarks, mesons as solutions of the Beth-Salpeter equation, and baryons in terms of solitions which rotate in flavor space. An in-depth analysis of regularization is given, including regularization by delocalized fields. Symmetry conserving approximations are formulated using both path integral and Feynmann graph methods. The book's style is pedagogical and well-suited to graduate and Ph.D. students who want to learn the techniques used in present day research. It can also serve as a reference for research and lecture courses.

Chiral Soliton Models for Baryons

Chiral Soliton Models for Baryons
Author: Herbert Weigel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2007-12-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540754350

This concise research monograph introduces and reviews the concept of chiral soliton models for baryons. In these models, baryons emerge as (topological) defects of the chiral field. The many applications shed light on a number of bayron properties, ranging from static properties via nuclear resonances to even heavy ion collisions. This volume also features a number of appendices to help nonspecialist readers to follow in more detail some of the calculations in the main text.

Chiral Solitons

Chiral Solitons
Author: Keh-fei Liu
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1987-04-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814507806

This review volume on topological and nontopological chiral solitons presents a global view on the current developments of this field in particle and nuclear physics. The book addresses problems in quantization, restoration of translational and rotational symmetry, and the field theoretical approach to solitons which are common problems in the field of solitons. Primarily aimed for graduate students and the novice in the field, the collected articless cover a broad spectrum of topics in formalism as well as phenomenology.

The Structure of the Nucleon

The Structure of the Nucleon
Author: Anthony W. Thomas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527635041

As the only stable baryon, the nucleon is of crucial importance in particle physics. Since the nucleon is a building block for all atomic nuclei, there is a need to analyse the its structure in order to fully understand the essential properties of all atomic nuclei. After more than forty years of research on the nucleon, both the experimental and theoretical situations have matured to a point where a synthesis of the results becomes indispensable. Here, A.W. Thomas and W. Weise present a unique report on the extensive empirical studies, theoretical foundations and the different models of the nucleon. The appendices provide an extensive summary of formulae needed in practical calculations. From the contents: electromagnetic structure of the nucleon, weak probes of nucleon structure, deep inelastic lepton scattering on the nucleon; elements of QCD, aspects of non-perturbative QCD, Chiral Symmetry and nucleon structure, models of the nucleon

Chiral Quark Dynamics

Chiral Quark Dynamics
Author: Reinhard Alkofer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2008-12-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540494545

These notes give an introduction to the description of hadrons, i.e., mesons and baryons, within a quark model based on a chirally invariant quantum field theory. Emphasis is put on a didactic approach intended for graduate students with some background on functional integral techniques. Starting from QCD a motivation of a specific form of the effective quark interaction is given. Functional integral bosonization leads to a theory describing successfully meson properties. It possesses solitonic solutions which are identified as baryons. Via functional integral techniques a Faddeev equation for baryons describing them as bound states of a diquark and a quark is derived. Finally, a unification of these two complementary pictures of baryons is proposed.

Continuous Advances In Qcd 2004 - Proceedings Of The Conference

Continuous Advances In Qcd 2004 - Proceedings Of The Conference
Author: Tony Gherghetta
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2004-11-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814481580

This book contains articles on the latest research in QCD from some of the leading experts in the field. These are based on talks presented at the Continuous Advances in QCD 2004 workshop held at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute.The book will be a useful reference source for graduate students and researchers in high energy physics.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings® (ISTP® / ISI Proceedings)• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)• CC Proceedings — Engineering & Physical Sciences

Proceedings of the Conference on Continuous Advances in QCD 2004

Proceedings of the Conference on Continuous Advances in QCD 2004
Author: T. Gherghetta
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9812560726

This book contains articles on the latest research in QCD from some of the leading experts in the field. These are based on talks presented at the Continuous Advances in QCD 2004 workshop held at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute.The book will be a useful reference source for graduate students and researchers in high energy physics.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: ? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings? (ISTP? / ISI Proceedings)? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)? CC Proceedings ? Engineering & Physical Sciences

Medium And High Energy Nuclear Physics - Proceedings Of The Conference

Medium And High Energy Nuclear Physics - Proceedings Of The Conference
Author: M K Pal
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1992-12-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9814554413

This volume gives a detailed account of the current trends in the interface areas of medium and high energy nuclear physics. Special stress is given to topics like chiral models, relativistic models, hot nuclei, quark-gluon plasma and other reactions with non-nucleonic degrees of freedom. The articles present the state-of-the-art research in these areas and also suggest unsolved problems which will form the main thrust of future research work in nuclear physics.

New Developments in Soliton Research

New Developments in Soliton Research
Author: L. V. Chen
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2006
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781594545610

Since their discovery a mere thirty years ago, solitons have been invoked to explain such diverse phenomena as: The long lived 'giant red spot' in the highly turbulent Jovian atmosphere. The famous Fermi-Pasta-Ulam paradox wherein a nonlinearly coupled lattice of particles does not display the 'expected equipartition of energy among available modes. It covers: Ion-acoustic waves in a plasma; Energy storage and transfer in proteins via the Davydov soliton; and The propagation of short laser pulses in optical fibres over long distances with negligible shape change. This volume presents important research from around the globe.

Few-Body Problems in Physics ’02

Few-Body Problems in Physics ’02
Author: Rajmund Krivec
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3709167280

In this Supplement we have collected the invited and contributed talks pre sented at the XVIII European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, organised by the Jozef Stefan Institute and the University of Ljubljana, Slove nia. The Conference, sponsored by the European Physical Society, took place at the lakeside resort of Bled from 8 to 14 September, 2002. This meeting was a part of the series of European Few-Body Conferences, previously held in Evora/Portugal (2000), Autrans/France (1998), Peniscola/Spain (1995), ... Our aim was to emphasise, to a larger extent than at previous Conferences, the interdisciplinarity of research fields of the Few-Body community. To pro mote a richer exchange of ideas, we therefore strived to avoid parallel sessions as much as possible. On the other hand, to promote the participation of young scientists who we feel will eventually shape the future of Few-Body Physics, we wished to give almost all attendees the opportunity to speak.